Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

  • -- Beverly Sills 贝弗利·希尔斯

对精神事物的依恋是……就像对其他任何事物的过分的爱一样。

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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

在我看来,整个世界就像一个巨大的真空,一个巨大的空白,从那里不可能得到任何想要的,或者至少是令人满意的东西;我每天都渴望死得越来越多;我所切慕属灵的事,并没有叫我得着安慰。

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

罗马和雅典的一些最杰出的天才对人类灵魂的精神本质有一些模糊的发现,并形成了一些可能的猜想,认为人类是为未来的生存状态而设计的。

The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.

我最重视的一般大会和这类会议的方面是讨论。这就是为什么人们聚集在一起:听取不同的意见,而不是通过决议。